▲ 534 ▼ The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit (www.theguardian.com) submitted 1 year ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 69 comments fedilink hide all child comments It is time to move to darknets like: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veilid
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (4 children) It’s cute you think VPNs will survive this. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* and that this thing will collapse permalink fedilink source parent [–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (2 children) This is all theatre. They know they have no legitimate reason to ban VPNs. Their justification for all of this is protect the children if they start banning VPNs they're going to start getting asked some incredibly awkward questions about how that's going to work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yup they just want more control, they know they can't have total control. So why ban VPNs, only a fraction of people uses them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago* Most of the people who use VPNs use them for work as well. It would be an impossible task to craft a law in such a way that didn't ban VPNs for business use, but did for private use, other than to just come out and say that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* and that this thing will collapse permalink fedilink source parent
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (2 children) This is all theatre. They know they have no legitimate reason to ban VPNs. Their justification for all of this is protect the children if they start banning VPNs they're going to start getting asked some incredibly awkward questions about how that's going to work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yup they just want more control, they know they can't have total control. So why ban VPNs, only a fraction of people uses them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago* Most of the people who use VPNs use them for work as well. It would be an impossible task to craft a law in such a way that didn't ban VPNs for business use, but did for private use, other than to just come out and say that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 point 1 year ago (1 child) Yup they just want more control, they know they can't have total control. So why ban VPNs, only a fraction of people uses them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago* Most of the people who use VPNs use them for work as well. It would be an impossible task to craft a law in such a way that didn't ban VPNs for business use, but did for private use, other than to just come out and say that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 point 1 year ago* Most of the people who use VPNs use them for work as well. It would be an impossible task to craft a law in such a way that didn't ban VPNs for business use, but did for private use, other than to just come out and say that. permalink fedilink source parent